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COMPUTER USE AT THE ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM 
The National Research Council of Canada has awarded the Department of 
Zoology, University of Toronto, a grant intended to stimulate research and 
student training in systematics and evolutionary biology. As one segment of 
the activities associated with this grant, the Department of Zoology has 
recently set up in the Royal Ontario Museum a small computer to aid in (1) 
cataloguing, storing and selectively retrieving specimen information, (2) 
routine statistical operations, and (3) gathering of data useful in systematic 
studies. Readers of MUDPIE may be interested in this system. 
The central processor is a Digital Equipment Corporation, PDP-8/I 
computer with 4K memory. There are two DEC tape units, one used to access 
depaitmental programs and the other for intermediate data storage, in addition 
to a larger magnetic tape recorder that allows capture of data on tape in an 
IBM compatible format. Specimen records are permanently stored on 7- track 
magnetic tape. Input is by paper tape or teletypewriter. Output is via the 
teletypewriter for rough copy or a carbon-ribbon, IBM Selectric typewriter for 
finished copy. The computer also handles data from an X-Y coordinate digitizer 
which is used to rapidly gather measurements and data for systematic studies.- 
